Quick update before I drag my tired bottom to bed

This may look like a brick of cheese, but it's much, much harder. I didn't cut it so much as hack at it: 

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Since the closest exotic meat shop won't have their next order of boar roast in for at least a week I'm going to focus on getting largess for Pennsic up and running.

I need to get more bottles- but I can't seem to find the link anywhere that Elizabeth had sent me in either email or going back through LJ. :( I'll check Artco tonight on the way home ( Read more... )

Here's the largess I'm handing off at Ursulmas for Estrella. 10 sets of 3 spice mixes and little booklets bound in a historically appropriate way with recipes for the spice mixes and 5 dishes from the same source that use them.

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I finally got a replacement phone, but I lost all my numbers. If you would like me to have your number, please PM me. :) I have lots of calls to catch up on ( Read more... )

Whew, it's been a hectic day. I had to deal with the long unpleasent ordeal of replacing my lost license. I managed to bottle the rest of the spice mixes during a brief interlude. The yeild was interesting ( Read more... )

I think like the tags best as fittzwm suggested. What do you think?

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I started with a clean spice grinder, then measured things out by weight, ground up each spice, then mixed. I've put them into what glass bottles I have for them, but I need to get at least a case for the additional spice mixes that wouldn't fit. I also need to figure out a viable method for labeling. I'm thinking clear lables with some form of ( Read more... )

For the purposes of experimenting with making this for largess (and in smaller batches for home use) I've chosen to break down the measurements into parts. As ounces seem to be the standard unit of measure used in all of these recipes and for all ingredients this is easily replaced by other units of measure, e.g. one tsp pepper, one tsp cinnamon, ( Read more... )